The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119944   Message #2721433
Posted By: Mr Happy
11-Sep-09 - 08:19 AM
Thread Name: Song Nationality?
Subject: RE: Song Nationality?
......& then you sometimes have 'borrowings' from other places, of melodies, themes, translations of lyrics etc.

Some that spring to mind are Roll out the barrel, of Czech origin

The Carnival is over, Russian

Michael Turners Waltz, from Mozart,an Austrian, who borrowed the theme from German folk dances